What’s to stop them from right now declaring themselves congress and passing their own laws? Words mean something.
My example is literally the first amendment. You seem to be saying that’s an example of bad a law unless corporations are regarded as people under it. I find the first-amendment-in-the-abstract talk empty. You can’t do first amendment analysis without a set of facts.
But let’s say the government passes the Fuck the ACLU Act that says that the ACLU is no longer allowed to publish anything or communicate in public. I’m saying that law should not be ruled unconstitutional under the first amendment, that expecting the first amendment to stop that law is wrong because corporations don’t have free speech.
And what if the government simply pulled the ACLU’s incorporation papers and made them no longer exist? Would the first amendment help with that? Obviously it would not. It turns out the government can do all kinds of things and freedom of speech is not the remedy for all of them.
